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That Time Someone Actually Achieved the Alchemists' Dream of Turning a Different Material Into Gold (2019x42)

Fecha de emisión: Feb 13, 2019

Check out B→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Do Scientists Ever Name Creatures After People They Dislike Out of Spite? https://youtu.be/ygTJUYZlDdY In this video: While it’s likely others had tried it before, the first surviving documented attempt of someone trying to turn something to gold in a (relatively) scientific fashion occurred around 300 AD. The proto-scientist in question was a Greco-Egyptian named Zosimos. During his lifetime, it’s thought that he wrote nearly thirty books about alchemy, but most of them have been lost to history. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/07/that-time-someone-actually-achieved-the-alchemists-dream-of-turning-a-different-material-into-gold/ Sources: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112105092057;view=1up;seq=6 https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/glenn-theodore-seaborg https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-lead-can-be-turned-into-gold/ http://www2.lbl.gov/Publications/Seaborg/heavyIon.htm https://www.aaas.org/blog/scientia/glenn-seaborg-scientist-and-public-servant https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-secrets-of-alchemy https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alchemy-may-not-been-pseudoscience-we-thought-it-was-180949430/ https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/791813 http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/seaborg-glenn.pdf https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=e53sNAOXrdMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&ots=5qpwUSiUcb&sig=UXO9cgJtUN0oPR6j-8sg3mK2sbA#v=onepage&q&f=false https://escholarship.org/content/qt7pk4c5xt/qt7pk4c5xt.pdf https://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-07/gray-matter-extracting-bismuth-pepto-bismol-tablets https://www.livescience.com/39451-bismuth.html https://www.live